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Good Evening all...Miss Prudence quit on the road today, not far from home.
After checking everything, we took the distributor apart and discovered that one advance arm is hitting the case and has left a lot of bits of metal in the distributor and we think shorting to the case. Does any one have a good exploded diagram of a Delco 1110811? It would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Ernie

It seems to have exploded already.

I expect the various Delco's Packard used are similar in layout but until something better comes along there is an "exploded" earlier Delco in section 4 of the 41-7 Clipper parts book and a later version on plate 21 in the parts plate section of the 55 parts manual. Didn't see much about Delco in the 48-54 book or in the ign training manual.

Here is a kind of photo illustration of the contact assy from the version you probably have from the 20th edition of Motors Manual. Perhaps you can get some ideas of how the weight section is constructed from the parts book illustrations.

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Good Evening all...Yes Fred it certainly seems to have! Thank you HH56 for the diagram it will be very helpful tomorrow. I suspect that my hair will be full of grime from scratching my head while working on this. Ernie

UPDATE...Good afternoon all. Well, Miss Prudence was treated to a 35 mile ride on a AAA flatbed, to my friends shop, and we found that we had inconsistant fire. We finally pulled the distributor and disassembled it...to find that one of the two spring loaded weights that move the distributor cam had come dislodged from its position and was dragging around the edge of the distributor case completely out of its normal position. There was lots of very tiny ground metalbitd inside mixed with the grease that was in the distributor. We disassembled everything and cleaned it all and then put it all back together. We took one 10 mile test run and then I drove Miss Prudence home, 35 miles in city traffic and she did fine. All is well that ends well! Ernie